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The witness said he was working at Gleneagles as a security supervisor on Tuesday, June 27 last year when he became aware that the branch of jewellers Mappin & Webb at the hotel was being robbed.

He said of the raiders: “All three were male. They were smashing up the display cabinets in the shop with red- handled hammers. They were wearing Morph-style suits – one-piece suits which covered their faces.”

Mr Wishart said one of the gang then threatened him with a gun. Asked if anything was said to him, he replied: “He said something along the lines of – and you must excuse my language: ‘F*** off. Call the police and I will kill you’.”

Asked about the gunman’s accent, Mr Wishart, 36, said: “It was certainly Scottish. Given there was a gun pointing at me, my complete focus was on that rather than the accent. But it was definitely Scottish.”

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Euan Wishart told the jury he was threatened during and after the terrifying raid (Image: NC)

Mr Wishart said he followed the robbers outside the hotel and tried to get the registration plate of their Audi getaway car, and the man with the gun then lowered a window of the car and threatened him for a second time.

He recalled: “He was pointing the firearm at me. He said: ‘F*** off. Follow us and I will kill you’ or ‘Follow us and you’re dead,’ that sort of thing.

“I put my hands up to show that I was non-threatening and I was backing off. Mr Wishart then told the court that as the Audi drove off, he got into a Mercedes car and gave chase.

He said he lost sight of the robbers’ car but then found it abandoned a short distance away.

Mr Wishart added: “Efforts had been made to pour some substance over the car.

“The substance was starting to bubble and foam.

“The substance was on the doors of the car.”

Fleming, 42, of London, denies armed robbery, attempting to pervert the course of justice, and housebreakings in St Andrews, Fife.